James Rocke
Executive Director & Community Leader
James has a great love and passion for serving people and organizations and comes to us with 30 years of experience in the health and human services field. James previously oversaw programs that provided specialized care and treatment services to vulnerable and at-risk populations with diverse and complex needs, residing in community-based home care and residential treatment settings, as well as supportive and independent living environments.
James also has the unique personal background of growing up in his grandmother’s board and care home, where she served seniors and adults with special needs. Little Jimmy (as his grandma called him) lived in a small room in the attic above her “Guest Home” and acted as both a companion and aide helping his grandmother take care of the daily needs of her guests.
James is excited to be part of the L’Arche Wavecrest team and he is looking forward to helping strengthen our current programs and services, while also helping to expand our reach and impact in the community.
Joined us in April 2024
Shantae Mayares
Community Care Manager/Assistant ARF Admin
Shantae came to L’Arche Wavecrest with countless hours of volunteer and community service work, along with several years of managerial experience. She walked in with an open heart and the burning desire to expand her personal impact in our community. Shantae has progressively taken on additional responsibilities and has been committed to learning and doing whatever it takes to fulfill her personal mission and goals, as evidenced by her recent achievement of becoming a certified Adult Residential Facility Administrator.
When she’s not at L’Arche Wavecrest, Shantae enjoys spending family time with her husband and their incredible children. Her entire family is heavily involved in their local church and are dedicated to building community around their faith. She and her family enjoy taking frequent nature trips to camp, hike, fish and enjoy the great outdoors.
Joined us in January 2024
Joseph Mayares
House Leader/DSP I – Abraham House
Bio coming soon…
Joined us in July 2024
Tiffany McClary
House Leader/DSP I – Haven House
Bio coming soon….
Joined us in August 2024
Jordan Mapes
Direct Service Professional II/Core Member Assistant
Jordan is collaborative, servant-hearted, and a close, well-trusted companion to our Core Members. Jordan literally grew up across the street from our Abraham House and joined the L’Arche Wavecrest team with long-term volunteer-hours and relationships already established with our Core Members since his youth. Over the years Jordan has taken on a variety of additional responsibilities, including coordinating activities, facilitating prayer night and has also stepped up to help cover with vacant house leader duties when needed.
Jordan is quite the character when it comes to special events, especially when dressing up for Halloween or promoting a new super hero movie he really loves. Around the house Jordan is often referred to as “MC Supreme” for his skills as our master of ceremonies when facilitating in house celebrations and events.
Joined us in March 2019
Creed
Future ARF Administrator in Training
Creed is the most recent addition to the team with our Abraham House Live-In family, led by Joe and Shantae. Creed loves having four big brother Core Members to share time with. Our Core Members enjoy walking to pick Creed up from school and then playing some afternoon basketball in the backyard together. Creed also enjoys watching some occasional TV and playing video games with our Core Members. When Creed isn’t busy listening to his parents to do his homework or clean his room, he enjoys drawing and playing with his Godzilla and sea creature action figures.
Our Executive Director not so secretly hopes Creed wants to follow in his parents footsteps and pursue a management career in our field. Creed recently received an award at his school for 100% accuracy on 34 of 34 math quizzes, so even if he’s not interested in operations, he most certainly can grow into being our future CFO!
Joined us in August 2024
